https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&feed=atom&hidebots=1&hideredirs=1&limit=50&offset=&namespace=0&username=&tagfilter=Admin Wiki - New pages [en]2024-03-28T16:25:54ZFrom Admin WikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_NAACL2024Q1 Reports: NAACL2024-03-09T12:30:04Z<p>Gneubig: Created page with "== Movement towards improving the inclusivity of NAACL == The NAACL board is discussing steps towards improving the inclusivity of NAACL, particularly towards encouraging par..."</p>
<hr />
<div>== Movement towards improving the inclusivity of NAACL ==<br />
<br />
The NAACL board is discussing steps towards improving the inclusivity of NAACL, particularly towards encouraging participation from Latin America. This includes both symbolic efforts, such as considering more inclusive naming of the chapter, and helping improve the affordability of participating in the NAACL conference.</div>Gneubighttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Anthology_Director2024Q1 Reports: Anthology Director2024-03-08T18:43:21Z<p>Matt Post: list bullets</p>
<hr />
<div>This report covers roughly August 2023 through February 2024. I continue to spend 3–5 hours a week with management and also low-level technical duties. I am assisted by two paid assistants who help with ingestion and the backlog of issues. <br />
<br />
Management proceeds through our Github issue tracking system. In addition, I have begun organizing ingestions into quarterly milestones (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/milestones), and triaging work on a project page (https://github.com/orgs/acl-org/projects/7).<br />
<br />
Here are some highlights:<br />
<br />
* With the permission granted last October and the help of Ryan Cotterell, I have hired a staff programmer. His first tasks will be to help clean up old ingestions that remain incomplete (such as EMNLP ingestion backlog), and then we will move to more development-oriented projects. I hope to have more to report on this by the next update.<br />
<br />
* EMNLP 2023 ingestion went very well. This is due largely to excellent organizational work on the part of publications chairs (in particular, Atsushi Fujita with EMNLP). The newish Github-based model, where every volume receives a separate repository, has helped immensely. We are still plagued by last-minute changes and requests that would benefit from hard, no-exceptions deadlines, but it is more manageable.<br />
<br />
* We have caught up on video ingestion for ACL and EMNLP 2023. The next goal on this project is to have complete self-hosting of videos currently hosted on Vimeo (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/2637).<br />
<br />
* We had a DMCA takedown request pertaining to a copyrighted image in a paper. The authors responded immediately and the issue was resolved to the satisfaction of the complainant.</div>Matt Posthttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Information_Director2024Q1 Reports: Information Director2024-03-05T02:38:13Z<p>Nmadnani: </p>
<hr />
<div>- Create and maintain Slack workspaces and channels for ACL & EACL 2024 and ARR. <br />
<br />
- Run elections and send emails for various SIGs.<br />
<br />
- Maintain and update AWS infrastructure for email sending.<br />
<br />
- Publish ACL events every day while clearing out expired and inactive email addresses from the ACL member database.<br />
<br />
- Maintain DigitalOcean account for Anthology along with SSL certificates.<br />
<br />
- Troubleshoot and solve TACL email issues. <br />
<br />
- Maintain GitHub repos and teams.</div>Nmadnanihttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_AACL2024Q1 Reports: AACL2024-03-03T08:47:18Z<p>JianSu: /* The development of AACL exe board */</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Joint conferences of AACL and AFNLP ===<br />
<br />
Upon the setup of AACL in 2018, AACL and AFNLP have committed to jointly host conferences in Asia Pacific to grow the common community. <br />
<br />
AFNLP and AACL each will be responsible for all matters of the ‘joint conference’ once every two years. Party in charge will invite a member from another party to join the conference coordination committee (ccc). However, the party-in-charge will take care of the conference organization including call-for-bids, selection of chairs, and finance, while another party plays only a consultative role. This joint conference starts from AACL – IJCNLP 2020. The joint conferences are skipped when ACL conference is in Asia every 3 years, as with ACL – IJCNLP 2021 and ACL 2024. AACL supports both conferences as ACL Asia Pacific Chapter. <br />
<br />
=== IJCNLP-AACL 2023 ===<br />
<br />
The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2023) was the 3rd edition of the joint conferences after AACL – IJCNLP 2022. It was held at Grand Hyatt Bali, Nusa Dua, in Bali, Indonesia on 1-4 Nov 2023. AFNLP is the party – in – charge while AACL also has a representative, Huang Xuan Jing in ccc for the consultative role. <br />
<br />
Besides, some other ACL colleagues also supported to / involved with the Program Committee activities, including Hwee Tou Ng (CL EiC), the ARR technical team, Yusuke Miyao (Conference Officer, ACL exe), Min-Yen Kan (the ACL Ethics Committee), Matt Post (ACL Anthology director).<br />
<br />
=== The development of AACL exe board ===<br />
<br />
As a new chapter with the executive board in its 3rd term, AACL continues to review the roles, process, institutional memory and etc at AACL executive board, AACL – IJCNLP conference practices, future conference planning in general, knowledge transfer to the next term as well as contributing to the resolution of issues raised at ACL exe. We also communicate with AFNLP on relevant information in parallel beyond IJCNLP – AACL 2023 through Huang Xuan Jing, AACL chair elect.</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Equity_Director2024Q1 Reports: Equity Director2024-03-02T16:42:36Z<p>Kellywanglu: Created page with "The EMNLP 2023 D&I committee granted 42 virtual registration discounts, with 34 of them being full fee waivers. The selections are made based on a combination of factors, incl..."</p>
<hr />
<div>The EMNLP 2023 D&I committee granted 42 virtual registration discounts, with 34 of them being full fee waivers. The selections are made based on a combination of factors, including (a) country of residence, (b) employment position, (c) monthly income range, (d) available financial support from your employer/university, and (e) special circumstances.</div>Kellywangluhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Treasurer2024Q1 Reports: Treasurer2024-03-01T23:36:27Z<p>DavidYarowsky: Created page with "ACL's financial health continues to be very strong, in spite of and in fact to some degree because of the exceptional risks and challenges of the past 4 years and our response..."</p>
<hr />
<div>ACL's financial health continues to be very strong, in spite of and in fact to some degree because of the exceptional risks and challenges of the past 4 years and our response to them.<br />
<br />
ACL's combined financial reserves are $5.8 million (USD) of 6/30/2023 at the end of the 2nd quarter. This total includes the central ACL organization, and all of ACL's many chapters and SIGs including the EMNLP conferences, and it represents a mean 10% year-to-year growth in financial reserves since 6/30/2022, given both the ongoing success of our 2022-2023 conferences and registration income received for ACL 2023.<br />
<br />
These financial reserves remain important, given that ACL self-insures and because of the ongoing financial volitility, risk and future unpredicability in the conference landscape, and our need to make very large cash deposits for future meetings.<br />
<br />
However, the scale of these financial reserves provides ACL with opportunities for investment in both long-overdue infrastructure improvement (such as for our reviewing platforms, and for multimodal development of the ACL anthology) and for new initiatives (focused particularly on greatly expanded support for diversity and inclusion). ACL is also intentionally investing more to partially subsidize its conferences from past reserves to keep registration fees at a more affordable level, especially for students, in the face of unusually high conference cost structures in both Toronto and Singapore.<br />
<br />
In 2023, ACL further diversified its reserves across a greater variety of interest bearing accounts and investments.<br />
<br />
ACL's membership revenue continues to be critically important to funding its journals and anthology and other core services. On average between 2018-2023, ACL's core services were supported by:<br />
<br />
Core Services Income:<br />
<br />
• 97% Membership fees<br />
• ~0% Royalties/Licensing Fees<br />
• 3% Other earned revenue<br />
• 0% Journal subscriptions and open access charges<br />
<br />
Core Services Expenditures:<br />
<br />
• 33% ACL Office, Legal/Accounting, IT Infrastructure (Anthology)<br />
• 66%+ TACL and CL Journals and other initiatives<br />
As we stand today, ACL's membership fees are focused on its core services, which include not only our journals but also ACL's very leanly run office, legal and accounting costs, and our IT infrastructure (which includes the ACL Anthology). And as our journals continue to grow significantly in size and scope, those costs continue to grow steadily as well.<br />
<br />
Even in a fully virtual-conference world these crown jewels depend on fully paid membership fees at a roughly 5000 person level, which may not be sustainable in some potential financial futures.<br />
<br />
The central reason that ACL does depend so much on our membership fees is because we have *no* journal subscription or open access charges. Now we of course could change that financial model and make the journal authors and users pay for our journals all by themselves, but there appears to be strong consensus that its a good thing that our complete half century of scholarship is freely available to everyone rather than stuck behind a paywall like at some of our peer institutions.<br />
<br />
Sponsorships continue to be extremely important to our conferences, covering more than 28% of conference expenses in the past year, with have particularly enabled longstanding and growing substantial investment in student support and diversity and inclusion initiatives.<br />
<br />
The conference expense structure has changed dramatically post-COVID, due both to inflation (which is particularly high for food, ACL's single largest conference expense), and to the very high infrastructure costs of hybrid conferences (for both the virtual platform and hosting costs as well as the substantially increased on-site costs for the interactive platform). As ACL invests in improving the hybrid experience, these costs have increased substantially and are not fully covered by virtual registration fees.<br />
<br />
ACL is still facing a challenging financial future as we work to reimagine our conference structures, balancing the wishes of those who are passionately eager to return to the energy and personal interaction opportunities of live meetings and those who see the transformative potential and advantages of virtual or hybrid meetings, and incurring combined costs for both substantially greater than either model by itself.</div>DavidYarowskyhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_ACL_20252024Q1 Reports: ACL 20252024-02-29T03:18:59Z<p>EmilyBender: Created page with "* General Chair: Roberto Navigli * Program Committee Co-Chairs: Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Wanxiang Che * Location & dates TBA at EACL 2024."</p>
<hr />
<div>* General Chair: Roberto Navigli<br />
* Program Committee Co-Chairs: Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Wanxiang Che<br />
* Location & dates TBA at EACL 2024.</div>EmilyBenderhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Sponsorship_Director2024Q1 Reports: Sponsorship Director2024-02-26T20:55:59Z<p>ChrisCallisonBurch: /* Action item for ACL */</p>
<hr />
<div>This is the 4th year that ACL has had a Sponsorship Director position. The position was created in July of 2020, and it officially started in Jan 2021. The position is currently filled by Prof. Chris Callison-Burch from the University of Pennsylvania, who previous served in several positions for the ACL: he was the General Chair for ACL 2017, Program Co-Chair for EMNLP 2015, Chair of the NAACL Executive Board 2012-2013 and a Board Member for NAACL Executive Board 2010-2011. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Duties of the Sponsorship Director ==<br />
<br />
The responsibilities of the Sponsorship Director are:<br />
* Coordinate with the ACL Business Manager to set the sponsorship rates for the conferences, and benefits for each sponsorship level<br />
* Contact recurring sponsors to solicit sponsorship of upcoming conferences.<br />
* Maintain an organized list of current sponsors and of potential sponsorship leads<br />
* Help recruit new sponsors to the conference<br />
* Invoice sponsors once they have picked a sponsorship level, and decided which conferences to sponsor.<br />
* Coordinate with the general chairs of the conferences to let them know about sponsor benefits like exhibition space<br />
* Coordinate the efforts of the conference sponsorship chairs <br />
* Liaising between sponsors and relevant conference organizers in order to ensure that we give the sponsors the promised benefits <br />
<br />
For future sponsorship directors I recommend:<br />
* Hire an assistant to help with invoicing <br />
* Coordinate with the ACL Business Manager and ACL Treasurer to ability to view bank account, so that you and your assistant can verify when sponsors have paid their invoices. <br />
<br />
In order to help manage the invoices, I asked permission from both the ACL Treasurer and my own university department to hire my admin at the University of Pennsylvania to help with issuing the invoices. Her name and email is Lily Hoot <lhoot@seas.upenn.edu>. She has been serving in the role for longer than a year, and has been quite valuable in handling the invoicing duties. We will bill the ACL $40/hour for her time to reimburse the University for time taken away from her normal responsibilities. I recommend that the ACL Exec budget for administrative help for future Sponsorship Directors as well.<br />
<br />
== Pain Points from Last Year ==<br />
<br />
There were several pain points for my role as Sponsorship Director last year. <br />
<br />
* Tracking down unpaid invoices is currently not as organized as it could be. It can sometimes be difficult for us to confirm whether sponsors had paid their invoices.<br />
* For workshops that raised sponsorship funds, it took the ACL a very long time to reimburse the organizers for any expenses that they incurred. We should develop a procedure for how to process reimbursements. <br />
* For SIGs that raised sponsorship funds, we weren't able to communicate whether they had a balance in their shadow account. The ACL should track their balances. <br />
* Several companies asked for a Sponsorship agreement. It would be good for the ACL to draft a standard sponsorship agreement.<br />
* Although printed materials like the conference handbook are a good place for placing sponsor logos, they are difficult to coordinate since they must be printed in advance of the conference, and they rely on input from many parties including program co-chairs. The EMNLP 2023 conference handbook ended up not being printed and only available in digital form. I have decided to remove printed handbooks and flyers from the list of sponsorship perks that we advertise in the sponsorship brochure, and I suggested we phase them out.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Proposals adopted last year: Reconfigure the ACL Sponsorship Committee ==<br />
<br />
Previously, the ACL Sponsorship Committee is supposed to consist of the ACL Sponsorship Director, the ACL Business Manager, two representatives from each local chapter, and two from SIGDAT. Last year, we adpoted more conference-centric model. <br />
* The ACL Sponsorship Director<br />
* The ACL Business Manager<br />
* 2 Sponsorship Chair for each conference, appointed by the general chair in consolation with the chapter boards and SIGDAT <br />
<br />
I recommend that the sponsorship chairs be a 2-conference cycle, with each chair serving for 2 instance of the conference, once as the junior chair and once as the senior chair (who trains the next junior chair).<br />
<br />
Here are my suggestions for [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i6DSInSR8MimdMuwAE1hDR-6gvQvX4zApjkUGJSGpP8/edit?usp=sharing| the conference sponsorship chairs duties].<br />
<br />
== Sponsorship rates for 2024 Conferences ==<br />
<br />
In late 2023, Jennifer Rachford and I set the sponsorship rates for 2024. <br />
<br />
Exhibition booths are included as part of the Diamond and Platinum sponsorship levels, and may be purchased as add-ons by other sponsorship. We increased the cost to purchase add-on exhibition booths this year.<br />
<br />
In previous years we would offer a 20% discount for "multi-pack" sponsorships where a company would sponsor multiple conferences. This year we changed the discount to be 15% for sponsoring 2 conferences, and 20% for sponsoring 3 conferences.<br />
<br />
Last year, we introduced two new options for a single company to sponsor the welcome event, and another to sponsor the social event, at each conferences. For EACL 2023, Grammarly was the inaugural Welcome Event Sponsor for $25,500 (making it the largest sponsor of EACL). For ACL 2023, Cohere was the inaugural Welcome Event Sponsor for $75,000 (making it the largest sponsor of EACL).<br />
<br />
<br />
== Sponsorship Booklet for 2024 Conferences ==<br />
<br />
I hired designers Kira Grennan <kira.grennan@gmail.com> and Jake Gingert <jakegingert@gmail.com> to update [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16nI8DUuW6I9Lv9sloTynTpX_ZQs94CSKb1IVxtn4lc4/edit?usp=sharing | the sponsorship booklet] again this year.<br />
<br />
== Sponsors for 2023 Conferences ==<br />
<br />
Our 2023 conferences secured the following confirmed sponsors. Note AACL opted to manage its own sponsorship, so I have no insights into it.<br />
<br />
<br />
* EACL 2023 Sponsors:<br />
** Welcome Event: Grammarly<br />
** Diamond: LivePerson<br />
** Platinum: Amazon, Bloomberg<br />
** Gold: none<br />
** Silver: Duolingo<br />
** Bronze: Adobe, Adobe, Babelscape<br />
** D&I: Amazon<br />
<br />
<br />
* ACL 2023 Sponsors:<br />
** Welcome Sponsor: Cohere<br />
** Diamond: Apple, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg, LivePerson<br />
** Platinum: Amazon, Baidu, ByteDance, DATAOCEAN AI, DeepMind, Grammarly, Huawei, Kaust, Megagon Labs<br />
** Gold: Ant Group, Comcast, NEC, Tencent, JP Morgan<br />
** Silver: aiXplain, Alibaba, Bosch, Translated, Duolingo<br />
** Bronze: Adobe, Adobe, Babelscape, ServiceNow<br />
** D&I: Amazon, LivePerson, DeepMind<br />
<br />
<br />
* EMNLP 2023 Sponsors:<br />
** Diamond: Apple, Google, LivePerson, GTCOM, HPC AI TECH, King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language, Sony<br />
** Platinum: Ahrefs, Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, ByteDance, Cohere, Megagon Labs, NEC<br />
** Gold: Ant Group, Bloomberg, Huawei, JP Morgan, SAP, Salesforce<br />
** Silver: aiXplain, Duolingo, jenni.ai, Translated<br />
** Bronze: Adobe, Adobe, Babelscape, Mercari, ModelBest, Nyonic<br />
** D&I: Amazon, RIKEN AIP<br />
<br />
The total sponsorship commitments for the ACL 2023 conferences was $1,096,340. Additionally, we had $159,877 for workshop sponsorships and colocated conferences.<br />
<br />
* EACL 2023: $54,300<br />
* ACL 2023: $557,600 (up from $382,000 for ACL 2022)<br />
* EMNLP 2023: $481,600 (similar to EMNLP 2022)<br />
<br />
<br />
I used [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J7ytfi8JTrVg6u34qY7ukwM6uNbjV4iqHayuXTuNlkU/edit?usp=sharing | this spreadsheet] to track sponsorship commitments.<br />
<br />
== Current Sponsors for 2024 Conferences ==<br />
<br />
We have reached out to the following companies soliciting their sponsorship: ASAPP, Accenture, Adobe, Ahrefs, Aleph Alpha, Alibaba, Amazon, Ant Group, Anthropic, Apple, BASF, Babelscape, Baidu, Bayer, Beyond Limits, Bloomberg, Bosch, ByteDance, Cambridge University Press , Capital One, Cisco, Cohere, Comcast, Company, Continental, DATAOCEAN AI, Databricks, DeepMind, Duolingo, Dyson, ETS, Fraunhoer, G-Research, GTCOM, Google Research, Grammarly, HLTCOE, HPC AI TECH, Huawei, IBM, JPMorgan, KLOA, Kaust, Kensho, King Salman Global Academy for the Arabic Language, LDC, LG AI Research, LinkedIn, LivePerson, Machine Learning Center of Excellence", Magic Data, Megagon Labs, Mercari, Merck, Meta, Microsoft, ModelBest, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, NEC, Naver Labs, Nuance, Nyonic, OpenAI, RIKEN AIP, Reddit, SAP, SCAI, Salesforce, Schwarz Group, ServiceNow, Sony Group Corporation, Super.AI, TIAA, Telekom, Tencent, Tetrasoft Federal, Translated, Two Sigma, UCSC, VESSL AI, Weights and Biases, Zalando, aiXplain, jenni.ai, nyonic<br />
<br />
As of February 26, 2024 we have secured the following confirmed sponsors.<br />
<br />
* Apple - Gold NAACL, Diamond ACL, Diamond EMNLP<br />
* Baidu - Platinum 3 pack for 2024 ACL; EMNLP; NAACL<br />
* Kensho - Platinum NAACL<br />
* Bloomberg - Gold EACL, Gold NAACL, Diamond EMNLP<br />
* LG AI Research - Diamond ACL<br />
* Capital One - Diamond NAACL<br />
* HITS gGmbH - D&I Champion for EACL<br />
* Babelscape - Bronze 2-pack for EACL and ACL<br />
* Ahrefs - Gold ACL<br />
* Two Sigma - Gold NAACL<br />
* Megagon - Platinum 4-pack for 2024 (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL and EACL)<br />
* Adobe - Bronze 4-pack for 2024 (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL and EACL)<br />
<br />
The total sponsorship commitments for the main conferences as of February 26, 2024 was the amount of $373,205. Additionally, we have $25,923 for workshop sponsorships.<br />
<br />
Note that the EACL 2024 sponsorship is likely to be substantially less than EACL 2023, since we did not secure a welcome event sponsor. <br />
<br />
I have been using [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J7ytfi8JTrVg6u34qY7ukwM6uNbjV4iqHayuXTuNlkU/edit?usp=sharing | this spreadsheet] to track sponsorship leads and commitments.<br />
<br />
== Action item for ACL Exec ==<br />
<br />
I have requested that ACL President Emily Bender respond to Grammarly's request about adding a clause to withdraw from sponsorship if Russian individuals have papers published in our conference.</div>ChrisCallisonBurchhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_TACL_Journal2024Q1 Reports: TACL Journal2024-02-24T09:34:40Z<p>ShiqiZhao: </p>
<hr />
<div>=== Staff Update: ===<br />
<br />
On January 6, 2024 Dilek Hakkani Tur, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, took the role of co-Editors-in-Chief. Dilek is joining Asli Celikyilmaz and Roi Reichart, and will serve for the years 2024-2026.<br />
<br />
=== Appendices: ===<br />
<br />
Starting on March 1, 2024, the journal is implementing a new appendices policy, published at https://transacl.org/index.php/tacl/announcement/view/105. This policy now allows for appendices that go beyond the length restrictions of the journal (10 pages for initial submissions with potentially 1-2 more pages in each subsequent submission after (c) or (b) decisions). The goal of this policy, as stated in the announcement, is as follows:<br />
<br />
Recognizing the increasing volume of experiments in our community, TACL announces a new appendices policy, aiming to balance reproducibility with conciseness and clarity. <br />
<br />
=== Anonymity Policy: ===<br />
<br />
As of the February 1, 2024 submission cycle, TACL adopted the new ACL anonymity policy. On January 12, 2024, ACL adopted the recommendations of its working group report, which applies to subsequent submission deadlines. <br />
<br />
The actual recommendations can be found in the following link:<br />
<br />
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/5/56/ACL_Anonymity_Policy.pdf</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Agenda2024Q1 Agenda2024-02-22T00:32:50Z<p>ShiqiZhao: </p>
<hr />
<div>===== Part1: submissions / reviewing =====<br />
<br />
- ACL Policy on synthetic reviews & ACL Publication ethics committee (Emily) (15min)<br />
<br />
- ACL standing reviewing committee (Iryna) (15min)<br />
<br />
- Enhancements on CL. Setting up ‘Computational Linguistics’ Dissertation Award (Wei) (15min)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
===== Part2: officers / chapters / others =====<br />
<br />
- Issues related to EACL (Roberto) (15min)<br />
<br />
- Possible renaming of NAACL to be more inclusive of the rest of the Americas (Graham) (15min)<br />
<br />
- Upcoming vp-elect duties & onboarding (Barbara) (15min)<br />
<br />
- CL EiC committee chairing; (2) Under-resourced GPU Credit Awards Program (Mohit) (15 mins)<br />
<br />
- Granting certificates to ACL Fellows (Chengqing) (15min)<br />
<br />
<br />
- Good of order (15min)</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_ACL_20272024Q1 Reports: ACL 20272024-02-21T22:13:34Z<p>BarbaraPlank: </p>
<hr />
<div>ACL 2027 will be held in Asia/Pacific. The coordinating committee will include members from both ACL and the AACL chapter.<br />
<br />
The channel on the ACL slack has been set up for this.<br />
<br />
I propose the following ACL 2027 Coordinating Committee, made up of X members of ACL and X members of AACL:<br />
<br />
TBA soon<br />
<br />
The plan is to have the call for bids ready for distribution after this year's ACL conference.</div>BarbaraPlankhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Member_at-large_-_EMEA2024Q1 Reports: Member at-large - EMEA2024-02-21T07:07:10Z<p>Verademberg: Created page with "The number of ACL SIGs has increased from 26 to 28 in the past year. We also have one BIG. The new SIGs are "SIGWrit: SIG on writing systems and written language" and "SIGSEC..."</p>
<hr />
<div>The number of ACL SIGs has increased from 26 to 28 in the past year. We also have one BIG. <br />
The new SIGs are "SIGWrit: SIG on writing systems and written language" and "SIGSEC: SIG on NLP security".<br />
Currently, all SIGs are active.</div>Verademberghttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Publicity_Director2024Q1 Reports: Publicity Director2024-02-21T05:37:04Z<p>Sarvnaz: Created page with "1. Handbook. It is continuously updated based on changes in the social media platforms. Publicity chairs are invited contribute to it. 2. Overview of Social Media presence an..."</p>
<hr />
<div>1. Handbook. It is continuously updated based on changes in the social media platforms. Publicity chairs are invited contribute to it.<br />
<br />
2. Overview of Social Media presence and number of members. We observe a steady increase in followers/members, except for Instagram (which is only used during on-site conferences and was active last time in 2019).<br />
<br />
Existing accounts:<br />
<br />
* Twitter: @aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting, @emnlpmeeting (used since 2021), <br />
* Weibo: https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/<br />
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting <br />
* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting <br />
* LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/<br />
* Mastodon: @aclmeeting@sigmoid.social, @eaclmeeting@sigmoid.social, @emnlpmeeting@sigmoid.social, @naaclmeeting@sigmoid.social, @aaclmeeting@sigmoid.social<br />
<br />
Current follower/member status for the main ACL accounts: <br />
Feb 2024: X/Twitter (@aclmeeting: 17.9K, @emnlpmeeting: 11.2K , @aaclmeeting: 2050, @eaclmeeting: 3915, @naaclmeeting: 7790), Facebook (890), LinkedIn members (2,558), Mastodon (@aclmeeting: 273).<br />
June 2023: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 15.8k, @emnlpmeeting: 9,125, @aaclmeeting: 1697), Facebook (808), LinkedIn members (2,132), Instagram (444), Mastodon (@aclmeeting, 170). <br />
February 2023: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 14.7k), Facebook (745), LinkedIn members (1,914), Instagram (444), Mastodon (@aclmeeting, 166). <br />
March 14, 2022: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 11.8k), Facebook (633), LinkedIn members (1,030), Instagram (454). <br />
July 8, 2021: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 9,336), Facebook (552), LinkedIn members (645), Instagram (449). <br />
July 3, 2020: Twitter (@aclmeeting: 4,305), Facebook (332), LinkedIn members (278), Instagram (485).<br />
<br />
Twitter seems to be the most followed social media platform with the most engagement. Note there was a 2K hike on followers in just @aclmeeting Twitter account.<br />
<br />
3. Upon request from the ACL exec/ACL officers, requested posts are placed on different platforms (not related to a particular conference and workshop). Examples are nominations for Test of Time awards or ACL Lifetime Achievement Award. This has been shown useful when the email communications were either not sufficient or too slow. ACL mailing list has around 4.5K recipients, as opposed to for example X/Twitter account (aclmeeting) with close to 18K followers.<br />
<br />
4. A proposal for Tutorial is accepted for ACL 2024 where there might be channel to also echo some information on ACL publicity and how people could consume the information/post on social media.<br />
<br />
<br />
ACL Publicity Director report by Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia)</div>Sarvnazhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Member_at-large_-_Americas2024Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Americas2024-02-19T00:53:37Z<p>Mbansal47: Created page with "<b>Led search committee for CL Journal's new Editor-in-Chief</b> Led the search committee for the Computational Linguistics (CL) Journal's new Editor-in-Chief. Committee cons..."</p>
<hr />
<div><b>Led search committee for CL Journal's new Editor-in-Chief</b><br />
<br />
Led the search committee for the Computational Linguistics (CL) Journal's new Editor-in-Chief. Committee consisted of Claire Cardie, Robert Dale, Vera Demberg, Julia Hirschberg, Hwee Tou Ng, and Joakim Nivre, and Mohit Bansal (chair). The committee advertised/requested open call for nominations, received nominations, and reviewed submitted statements. Wei Lu (SUTD) was selected as the new EiC candidate and was asked if he agrees to take on the EiC role -- he agreed to take on the role and started his role on Feb 15, 2024.<br />
<br />
<b>ACL Cloud GPU program for under-resourced communities</b><br />
<br />
More concrete progress on the award-based cloud GPU program for under-resourced communities. Have sent detailed draft information on tentative CfP, award size, number of awards, etc. and is being currently reviewed the GPU division/department. Should hear back likely in 1 month.</div>Mbansal47https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Member_at-large_-_Asia/Pacific2024Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Asia/Pacific2024-02-15T07:55:47Z<p>Yukiar: Created page with "As the conference officer, I worked on the following issues regarding conference organisation. * Started the process of the ACL 2024 Test-of-Time paper award nomination ** T..."</p>
<hr />
<div>As the conference officer, I worked on the following issues regarding conference organisation.<br />
<br />
* Started the process of the ACL 2024 Test-of-Time paper award nomination <br />
** The co-chairs are determined and are in the process of selecting nomination committee members.<br />
* Started the implementation of non-publicized paper awards</div>Yukiarhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Secretary2024Q1 Reports: Secretary2024-02-07T01:51:37Z<p>ShiqiZhao: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Membership== <br />
<br />
We expect to close 2023 with over 7000 members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.<br />
<br />
== Outgoing Exec Members ==<br />
<br />
The following people are leaving the exec:<br />
<br />
* Tim Baldwin (ACL VP-elect (2020), VP (2021), President (2022), Past President (2023))<br />
* Yusuke Miyao (ACL member at-large, conference officer, 2021-2023)<br />
* Luciana Benotti (NAACL Chair, 2022-2023)<br />
* Hwee Tou Ng (CL EiC, 2018-2024)<br />
<br />
I would like to thank all of you for your great contributions as the exec members and wish you luck in your future endeavors!<br />
<br />
== New Exec Members ==<br />
<br />
We have three new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2024. These are:<br />
<br />
* Barbara Plank (ACL VP-elect)<br />
* Yuki Arase (ACL member at-large)<br />
* Graham Neubig (NAACL Chair)<br />
* Wei Lu (CL EiC)<br />
<br />
Welcome to the new exec members! <br />
<br />
The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about<br />
<br />
The next elections will take place in the Fall of 2024.<br />
<br />
== ACL Policies ==<br />
<br />
In 2023, ACL has approved the following new policies:<br />
<br />
* [[ACL Name Change Policy]]<br />
** ACL recognizes the right of individuals to use the name of their choosing for their publications, including those in the past. We offer multiple options for individuals who have changed their name.<br />
* [[Policy on Memorial Services]]<br />
<br />
In addition, the Exec approved the amendment to the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members, and the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].<br />
<br />
== New SIGs ==<br />
<br />
The following new SIGs were created in 2023:<br />
<br />
* SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization)<br />
** https://www.sigsumm.org/<br />
** Liaison representative: Yue Dong<br />
* SIGSEC (SIG on NLP Security)<br />
** https://sig.llmsecurity.net<br />
** President: Leon Derczynski, Secretary: Muhao Chen<br />
* SIGWrit (SIG on Writing Systems and Written Language)<br />
** president: Richard Sproat, Secretary-Treasurer: Kyle Gorman<br />
<br />
== ACL Lifetime Achievement Award ==<br />
<br />
The winner of the ACL 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Martha Palmer, for tremendous contributions to NLP, multilingual resources, and supervised ML in lexical-semantic processing.<br />
<br />
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/martha-palmer-receives-2023-acl-lifetime-achievement-award<br />
<br />
The 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced during the ACL 2024 conference.<br />
<br />
For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients<br />
<br />
== Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award == <br />
<br />
In recognition of the outstanding contributions of Dragomir Radev to the ACL and the whole NLP community, the ACL Executive Committee has decided to rename the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.<br />
<br />
The 2023 winner of the Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award is Joakim Nivre, who has served in many different capacities in the ACL leadership and exemplifies the dedication over his over two decades of contribution to computational linguistics.<br />
<br />
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/joakim-nivre-receives-2023-acl-dragomir-radev-distinguished-service-award<br />
<br />
The 2024 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award will be announced during the ACL 2024 conference.<br />
<br />
For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Distinguished_Service_Award_Recipients<br />
<br />
== Test-of-Time Paper Award ==<br />
<br />
The winners of the 1998 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:<br />
<br />
* Irene Langkilde, Kevin Knight. Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge. Proceedings of ACL 1998.<br />
* Hinrich Schütze. Automatic Word Sense Discrimination. Computational Linguistics, 24(1). 1998.<br />
<br />
The winners of the 2013 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:<br />
<br />
* Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre, Yvonne Quirmbach-Brundage, Yoav Goldberg, Dipanjan Das, Kuzman Ganchev, Keith Hall, Slav Petrov, Hao Zhang, Oscar Täckström, Claudia Bedini, Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Jungmee Lee. Universal Dependency Annotation for Multilingual Parsing. Proceedings of ACL 2013.<br />
* Richard Socher, Alex Perelygin, Jean Wu, Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew Ng, Christopher Potts. Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank. Proceedings of EMNLP 2013.<br />
<br />
== ACL Fellows ==<br />
<br />
The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2023:<br />
<br />
*Mona Diab<br />
** Carnegie Mellon University<br />
** For contributions to Arabic language NLP, to lexical semantics, and for democratizing NLP to wider and less privileged communities.<br />
<br />
*Barbara di Eugenio<br />
**University of Illinois at Chicago<br />
**For outstanding contributions to natural language generation; intelligent tutoring systems; discourse; intercoder agreement; and applying multimodal interactive systems to health.<br />
<br />
*Anna Korhonen<br />
**University of Cambridge<br />
**For significant contributions to lexical acquisition, multilingual and low resource NLP, socially beneficial language applications, and services to the ACL community<br />
<br />
*Roberto Navigli<br />
**Sapienza University of Rome<br />
**For significant contributions to multilingual lexical-semantic resources and a unifying vision for multilingual lexical and sentence-level semantics.<br />
<br />
*Ming Zhou<br />
**Langboat Ltd.<br />
**For significant contributions to machine translation, language learning, text generation as well as the growth of NLP community in China and Asia<br />
<br />
== Coming Conferences == <br />
<br />
* EACL 2024 <br />
** https://2024.eacl.org/<br />
** The 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024) will take place in Malta, March 17-22, 2024.<br />
<br />
* NAACL 2024<br />
** https://2024.naacl.org/<br />
** 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024) will take place in Mexico City, Mexico from June 16th to 21st, 2024.<br />
<br />
* ACL 2024<br />
** https://2024.aclweb.org/<br />
** The 62st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024) will take place in Bangkok, Thailand from August 11th to 16th, 2024.<br />
<br />
* EMNLP 2024<br />
** The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024) will take place in Miami, USA, from November 12 to 16, 2024.<br />
<br />
== 2023 Reports from ACL Officers ==<br />
<br />
Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q1_Reports<br />
<br />
Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports<br />
<br />
== ACL Resolutions ==<br />
<br />
The list of ACL resolutions: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions <br />
<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Shiqi Zhao, ACL secretary</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_ACL_20262024Q1 Reports: ACL 20262024-02-07T01:39:39Z<p>ShiqiZhao: </p>
<hr />
<div>1. The authorship changes policy for ACL conference papers has been formulated and published <br />
<br />
In recent years, there have been some issues when organizing ACL conferences, such as, who should deal with authorship issues (beyond scope of PCC as currently scoped)? what is our co-authorship policy that we should consider authorship changes/eligibility relative to? and so on. I have been responsible for establishing a working group to a working group to discuss and formulate the authorship changes policy in response to these issues since July 2023. After several months of careful discussion and revision, the working group finally formed the “Authorship Changes Policy for ACL Conference Papers", which has been voted by the ACL Executive Committee and published on ACL's wiki website (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Authorship_Changes_Policy_for_ACL_Conference_Papers), officially becoming a policy provision of ACL. I hope it will play a role for the first time in the organization of the EACL 2024 conference.<br />
<br />
In this policy, the responsibilities and obligations of the corresponding authors are defined, and the constraints on author changes are relaxed. Even the corresponding authors can be replaced or added, and two corresponding authors are allowed for each paper, as effective communication between the conference organizers and the paper authors must be ensured during the review, rebuttal and other processes. This will help avoid situations where the conference organizers (PC Chairs or OC Chairs etc.) cannot contact the author of the paper.<br />
<br />
2. Responsible for preparing to solicit ACL2026 bidders <br />
<br />
The ACL Executive Committee has updated the bidding process, which includes the following key points: 1) Local organizers should not work to engage PCOs, but rather should suggest promising venues based on publicly available information and/or discussions with local government organizations who work to bring major conventions to localities. 2) Local organizers should not propose specific dates, but rather provide information about feasible dates, based on such local data as weather patterns, holidays, etc. 3) When there a multiple viable bids for a given conference/year, ACL will consider those not chosen for future dates, if the local organizers are amenable.<br />
<br />
Accordingly, we have to change the bidding ways. I am currently in close contact with Jenn, David, and members of ACL 2026 Coordinating Committee to prepare for the release of the ACL 2026 bidding announcement as soon as possible.<br />
<br />
3. Participating in other ACL Executive Committee activities, including discussing and revising Report of the ACL Committee on the Anonymity Policy, and others.</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Authorship_Changes_Policy_for_ACL_Conference_PapersAuthorship Changes Policy for ACL Conference Papers2024-02-03T12:18:58Z<p>ShiqiZhao: </p>
<hr />
<div>The author list for a submission should include all (and only) individuals who made substantial <br />
contributions to the presented work. Any changes to the author list must follow the guidelines <br />
outlined below.<br />
<br />
=== 1. Role of authors and contributors ===<br />
<br />
Referring to the ICMJE's criteria for authorship (https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html), ACL adopts the following criteria: <br />
*Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work;<br />
*Drafting the work, providing and processing training and testing data and reviewing it critically for important intellectual content;<br />
*Final approval of the version to be published;<br />
*Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.<br />
<br />
=== 2. Responsibilities and obligations of corresponding authors ===<br />
The corresponding authors are primarily responsible for communicating with the conference <br />
when there are multiple authors involved in a paper. Each submission must clearly designate <br />
the corresponding authors (mandatory for conference submissions through the submission <br />
system). A submission usually has one corresponding author, with a maximum of two. For <br />
papers not submitted through the submission system, such as a workshop in very exceptional<br />
circumstances, the first author will be assumed as the corresponding author.<br />
<br />
The corresponding author has the following responsibilities and obligations:<br />
# Reaching a consensus among all co-authors regarding their name placement before submitting the paper.<br />
# Ensuring that each co-author updates their personal information and publication data on the designated platform or system of the conference as required. This ensures fair anonymous reviews by the Program Committee without any COI issues. Failure to do so may affect the fairness of the committee's selection of papers, resulting in desk rejection upon discovery of inaccurate authorship information.<br />
# Maintaining well consistent communication with the conference organizers throughout the manuscript submission, review, and publication stages, while adhering to all conference administrative requirements. The conference organizers include but not limited to Program Committee Chairs, (Senior) Area Chairs, Publication Chairs and other conference organizers related to paper review, rebuttal, publication and other processes.<br />
# Seeking opinions from all co-authors before submitting the camera-ready paper to ensure there are no objections.<br />
# Responding to post-publication inquiries about the work. In case of allegations of plagiarism, the corresponding author and co-authors must cooperate with the ACL Executive Board or committee related to suspected plagiarism investigation.<br />
<br />
=== 3. Categories of Authorship Alterations: ===<br />
* (a) Switching the corresponding author.<br />
* (b) Incorporating new authors.<br />
* (c) Removing existing authors.<br />
* (d) Re-arranging the current author sequence.<br />
* (e) Updating existing author information. Hereafter, 'author information' refers to all other information related to the paper, except for the author's name, including the author's affiliation, postal or email addresses etc.<br />
* (f) Rectifying errors in author names and their information, including spelling errors caused by code corruption.<br />
* (g) Changing author name.<br />
<br />
=== 4. Protocols for Authorship Alterations: ===<br />
# All alterations from Section 3 above are permissible before the deadline of camera-ready paper submission. When an existing corresponding author needs to be replaced, or it may be necessary to add a new corresponding author, an existing corresponding author must apply to the Program Committee Chairs for assistance and provide the agreement of all co-authors. There should be no more than two corresponding authors.<br />
# After the camera-ready paper deadline, the alterations except 3(f) and 3(g) are typically declined.<br />
# The ACL Name Change Policy should be referred to when an author needs to change their name (alteration 3(g)) after the camera-ready paper deadline.<br />
<br />
The authority to interpret this policy belongs to the ACL Executive Board. In case of any disputes, please file an appeal with the ACL Executive Board.</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_CL_Journal2024Q1 Reports: CL Journal2024-02-02T13:52:52Z<p>HweeTouNg: Created page with "During the past year (January to December 2023), CL journal received 215 first submissions of regular papers, special issue papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. T..."</p>
<hr />
<div>During the past year (January to December 2023), CL journal received 215 first submissions of regular papers, special issue papers, survey proposals, and full survey papers. The average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers submitted in 2023 was 46 days (excluding desk rejects).<br />
<br />
The number of submissions has increased by 55% (from 138 submissions in 2022), and the average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers was 47 days in 2022 (excluding desk rejects).<br />
<br />
CL journal achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, which is the highest that the journal has ever achieved, and an improvement from 7.778 in 2021. CL’s impact factor has always been lower than 3.0 from 1997 to 2020 (the journal’s impact factor was first tracked in 1997). <br />
<br />
The published CL papers of the 4 issues in 2023 (March 2023 to December 2023) comprise 19 regular papers, 3 survey papers, 1 squib, and 5 book reviews.<br />
<br />
I have written an editorial article in the December 2023 issue of CL journal about my tenure as the Editor-in-Chief of CL journal, describing the changes that I have introduced at the journal and highlighting the achievements and challenges of the journal.<br />
<br />
Looking ahead, the March 2024 issue will include 7 regular papers and 2 survey papers. As of today, the June 2024 issue includes 5 regular papers, 1 survey paper, 2 squibs, and 1 last words article. Pre-print versions of all accepted papers to appear in the March 2024 and June 2024 issues of CL journal have already been posted on the Online Early webpage of CL journal.<br />
<br />
I have completed my term as the editor-in-chief of Computational Linguistics journal. I would like to thank the entire editorial team at CL journal for their dedicated service, and all authors who choose to submit their papers to CL.<br />
<br />
The CL EIC search has concluded successfully. Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief of Computational Linguistics journal for a five-year term. I am confident that the journal is in good hands with Wei at the helm!<br />
<br />
Hwee Tou Ng<br />
<br />
31 January 2024</div>HweeTouNghttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_Ethics_Committee_Co-chairs2024Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs2024-01-24T17:38:23Z<p>Knmnyn: </p>
<hr />
<div>''N.B.: This document is authored expressly for the purpose of informing the ACL Executive Board as required for the Quarter 1 2024 documentation. It is meant to be read by the ACL Executive Board and is also suitable for the ACL membership and the general public.''<br />
<br />
== Overview ==<br />
After 2023 Q3, the Ethics Committee responded to a few issues that required our attention. These issues sidelined scheduled work on internal documentation progress which we hope to restart. As a reminder, our committee is structure with four subcommittees:<br />
<br />
* [[#Ethical Reviewing Guidelines]]<br />
* [[#Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach]]<br />
* Committee Scope<br />
* Committee Procedure<br />
<br />
The '''Committee Procedure''' and '''Committee Scope''' subcommittees have not made much progress suitable for reporting since the previous half year, so we have left them out of this update. We first discuss two issues that consumed most of the deliberative bandwidth of our committee.<br />
<br />
== Issue 1. Pre-print survey ==<br />
<br />
The ACL Executive instituted an '''ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee''' to poll the ACL constituency about their feelings on the (now past) pre-print policy. This was done without consulting our committee. We identified issues that may affect the validity and representativeness of the survey and possible action repercussions of any downstream action (that was ultimately taken by the executive).<br />
<br />
As we felt that the issue was pertinent to ethics in its wider scope, we deliberated on our action and ultimately wrote to the committee directly so as to not to disrupt ongoing work and deliberation unknown to us. Our recommendations were acknowledged, but some of our members (we were not unanimous on our own internal deliberations) were unsatisfied with the outcomes of the survey.<br />
<br />
We include our recommendations to the committee here for the public record:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
Dear ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy Committee:<br />
<br />
Thank you for doing the community a great service in helping to get aclearer picture of our membership’s varied perspectives on the topic of preprints and, relatedly, of anonymity in peer review. This is a sensitive subject with heated arguments on both sides, and care in communication is important. We are writing to you to offer any assistance we may render to you, as we feel that there are ethical issues related to the current preprint environment. <br />
<br />
In particular, (double) blind review and the representativeness of the survey outcomes are two issues that we would like to call attention to.<br />
<br />
Blind review has been shown to lessen bias in publication, as names of well-known institutions and authors have been scientifically shown to bias the quality judgement of work [3,4,2,5]. We believe that the institution of blind review needs to be preserved to ensure that work is only judged on scientific merit and not by any other ancillary factor, such as prestige or author demographics [1]. These are factual observations that are worthwhile to consider in your recommendations, as (changes in) pre-print policies affect anonymity. ArXiv does not allow nor mandate anonymous submission. <br />
<br />
Our Recommendation: Any preprint platform that our community uses should protect double blind review and require anonymous submission.<br />
<br />
We appreciate your multipronged attempt to solicit participation in the survey through multiple emails and social media advertisements. Despite this effort, there may be a self-selection bias in survey participation.<br />
<br />
Our Recommendation: Ensure that all voices are heard. We urge the committee to attend to underrepresented minorities and groups that will be disproportionately affected by changes to the pre-print policy. Such groups may not be on social media and may be better served by other means. One concrete means of realising this is to convene focus groups that include such populations, as they may discover new issues. A survey then can validate and measure the prevalence of these issues. We encourage adding representation from ACL chapters and groups that are not currently well represented, such as researchers from the global south and EquiCL, the ACL DEI interest group.<br />
<br />
Current social media platforms may not be the most appropriate vehicle for nuanced rationale discussion on such topics. Twitter/X’s agenda may encourage divisiveness and exclusion among our membership, which does a disservice to our community.<br />
<br />
Our Recommendation: The survey committee needs to keep in mind that social media platforms represent only a fraction of our community. Dissemination of survey results should not rely on social media as a means of discussion.<br />
<br />
We would urge you to consider these factors in helping to shape the narrative with respect to the interpretation of your survey’s outcome. Please do reach out to us if you feel that we can be helpful.<br />
<br />
The ACL Ethics Committee<br />
<br />
References:<br />
[1] Kaatz A, Gutierrez B, Carnes M. Threats to objectivity in peer review: the case of gender. Trends in pharmacological sciences. 2014;35(8):371-373.<br />
<br />
[2] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin W. Single vs. Double Blind Reviewing at WSDM, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00502.pdf<br />
<br />
[3] Okike K, Hug KT, Kocher MS, Leopold SS. Single-blind vs Double-blind Peer Review in the Setting of Author Prestige. JAMA. 2016 Sep 27;316(12):1315-6.<br />
<br />
[4] Tomkins A, Zhang M, Heavlin WD. Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):12708-12713. doi: > 10.1073/pnas.1707323114. Epub 2017 Nov 14. PMID: 29138317; PMCID: PMC5715744.<br />
<br />
[5] [FR] http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/2017/03/17/relecture-par-les-pairs-un-etat-de-lart/<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
== Issue 2. Appropriate use of the ethics consideration section ==<br />
<br />
As certain camera-ready versions of EMNLP 2023 papers contained non-peer reviewed statements that particular members of the public and our committee thought were misused, our committee also deliberated on what action to take. As of this timing, the committee has not taken an official action, as we understand that there are again various members of the executive working on these delicate issues. We are still formulating a possible action. <br />
<br />
== Ethics Survey ==<br />
The report is deposited as part of the archival resources for the EACL tutorial (mentioned below):<br />
<br />
https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial/blob/main/survey/yes_we_care_more_results_of_the_2021_ethics_and_natural_language_processing_survey.pdf<br />
<br />
Yulia Tsvetkov and Karën Fort and Min-Yen Kan all co-chair this subcommittee.<br />
<br />
== Ethical Reviewing Guidelines ==<br />
<br />
Conferences and other events have largely taken ethics directive from the ARR Ethics guidelines for which our committee has offered our feedback on, through shared committee members (Dirk Hovy and Pascale Fung). <br />
<br />
As part of the outreach effort at ACL 2023, Dirk Hovy will report on our tripartite (authoring, reviewing, event organising) guidelines. We will highlight some specific challenges of ensuring that ethics reviewing is considered a first-class duty, alongside and complementary to scientific reviewing.<br />
<br />
This subcommittee is chaired by Yulia Tsvetkov, assisted by Karën Fort.<br />
<br />
== Ethics Tutorial, Education and Outreach ==<br />
<br />
We ran an ethics tutorial [https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-tutorials.4 Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing] at EACL 2023 (May, Dubrovnik).<br />
<br />
Luciana Benotti, Karën Fort, Min-Yen Kan and Yulia Tsvetkov were the presenters and authors for the tutorial. <br />
<br />
As part of the charges for the tutorial, we created educational resources in terms of an introductory 60-minute presentation merging two of the authors' (Karen and Yulia's) lecture notes. We also created a number of problematic synthetic abstracts (based on real studies, but without the stigma that would be result from attributing a problematic abstract to an author) for participants to analyse. We also described materials such as the reviewing guidelines, [https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-reading-list ethics reading list], and an analyses of ''Ethical Considerations and Limitations'' sections in NLP/CL papers (contributed by Luciana Benotti) as part of the tutorial's open-source contents.<br />
<br />
At EACL 2023, we had about 20 participants in total join the tutorial, with 1 remote participant.<br />
<br />
We have archived and documented all of the tutorial's materials at its associated Github repository link. The ACL Ethics Committee Report on its 2021 Survey (mentioned above) is also deposited there as well: <br />
<br />
https://github.com/acl-org/ethics-tutorial<br />
<br />
With ACL 2023 culminating in the successful delivery of the survey, and EACL 2023 the tutorial, we will likely work towards a special journal issue call for papers themed on ethics, again as part of outreach to build a community of scholars interested in these topics. The ''Computational Linguistics'' journal has agreed that this would be within their purview and of interest to its audience.</div>Knmnynhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports:_ACL_20242024Q1 Reports: ACL 20242024-01-17T08:10:56Z<p>Iryna Gurevych: Created page with "The '''ACL 2024 conference''' will take place in Bangkok, from August 11th to 16th, 2024. It is all on track for the conference: * The CFP is about to be launched. * Monthly..."</p>
<hr />
<div>The '''ACL 2024 conference''' will take place in Bangkok, from August 11th to 16th, 2024. It is all on track for the conference:<br />
<br />
* The CFP is about to be launched.<br />
* Monthly meetings are held with GC, PC and Jennifer.<br />
* The conference website is live listing [https://2024.aclweb.org/program/workshops/ workshops] and [https://2024.aclweb.org/program/tutorials/ tutorials].<br />
* We are currently discussing the optimal distribution of poster sessions and oral presentations for the main conference.<br />
* We have a shared space on Slack for all chairs.<br />
* Next tasks are:<br />
** Student workshop CFP<br />
** Finalizing workshop dates <br />
<br />
<br />
The '''ACL anonymity policy group''' has concluded its work with a [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy report and recommendations]; it will be implemented for ACL 2024 on time.</div>Iryna Gurevychhttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/2024Q1_Reports2024Q1 Reports2024-01-14T11:24:12Z<p>ShiqiZhao: Created page with "* 2024Q1 Agenda - Agenda for the 2024Q1 teleconference * 2024Q1 Reports: Office - Jenn Rachford * 2024Q1 Reports: Secretary - Shiqi Zhao * 2024Q1 Reports: Trea..."</p>
<hr />
<div>* [[2024Q1 Agenda]] - Agenda for the 2024Q1 teleconference<br />
<br />
<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Office]] - Jenn Rachford<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Secretary]] - Shiqi Zhao<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Treasurer]] - David Yarowsky<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Member at-large - EMEA]] - Vera Demberg<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Asia/Pacific]] - Yuki Arase<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Member at-large - Americas]] - Mohit Bansal<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: EACL]] - Roberto Basili<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: NAACL]] - Graham Neubig<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: AACL]] - Jian Su<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: ACL 2024]] - Iryna Gurevych<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: ACL 2025]] - Emily M. Bender<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: ACL 2026]] - Chengqing Zong<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: ACL 2027]] - Barbara Plank<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: CL Journal]] - Hwee Tou Ng<br />
<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Information Director]] - Nitin Madnani<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: TACL Journal]] - Asli Celikyilmaz & Roi Reichart<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Anthology Director]] - Matt Post<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Publicity Director]] - Sarvnaz Karimi<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: PCC]] - Donia Scott & Daniel Bikel<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Equity Director]] - Lu Wang<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Sponsorship Director]]- Chris Callison-Burch<br />
* [[2024Q1 Reports: Ethics Committee Co-chairs]]- Min-Yen Kan, Karën Fort, Yulia Tsvetkov<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[2024Q1 Minutes (public version)]]</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_PolicyACL Anonymity Policy2024-01-12T09:59:35Z<p>Iryna Gurevych: better link to awards</p>
<hr />
<div>ACL adopted the recommendations of [[Media:ACL_Anonymity_Policy.pdf|this working group report]] on January 12, 2024. The new policy applies to subsequent submission deadlines. It will be reflected in the instructions for submission and reviewing. Please read the report for the policy details and their motivation.<br />
<br />
Papers that were submitted to review processes with earlier deadlines are still governed by the old anonymity policy, since they use the old review procedure. <br />
<br />
Both old and new policies are described at [[ACL Policies for Submission, Review and Citation]]. The new policy will also [[ACL Conference Awards Policy#Additional_Award_Slots_for_Unpublicized_Work|affect awards]].</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Dragomir_Radev_Distinguished_Service_AwardDragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award2024-01-10T02:09:12Z<p>ShiqiZhao: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Introduction ==<br />
<br />
ACL is primarily run by volunteers, and some of these are known to have dedicated not just years but decades of service to the organization. Currently, although ACL recognizes outstanding scientific achievement with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and further recognizes outstanding scholars in the form of ACL Fellows, the organization does not impart formal recognition for service above and beyond standard levels.<br />
<br />
Many academic organizations that are otherwise similar to ACL have Service Awards. These include:<br />
* LSA Victoria A. Fromkin Lifetime Service Award[https://www.linguisticsociety.org/about/who-we-are/lsa-awards#fromkin]<br />
* AAAI (Distinguished Service Award)[https://aaai.org/Awards/distinguished.php]<br />
* ACM (Distinguished Service Award)[https://awards.acm.org/distinguished-service]<br />
* ACM SIGCHI (Lifetime Service Award)[https://sigchi.org/awards/]<br />
* IEEE Computer Society Richard E Merwin Award for Distinguished Service[https://www.computer.org/web/awards/merwin]<br />
<br />
== The Proposal ==<br />
<br />
This document proposes to establish a Distinguished Service Award, with many parallels to the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award. This proposal enumerates the qualifications for recipients of the award, the process for nominating and selecting recipients of the award, and the procedure for announcement of award winners.<br />
<br />
=== Purpose ===<br />
<br />
The ACL Distinguished Service award recognizes one individual each year for extraordinary service to the computational linguistics community. Areas of service include, but are not limited to: association service, service as an editor, conference organization, representation of ACL in other organizations, or influential service as a government agency contract monitor or program director, that results in positive effects on the field of computational linguistics.<br />
<br />
=== Criteria for Selection ===<br />
<br />
The criteria for this award are:<br />
* Extraordinary service to ACL and its activities<br />
* Extended service over many years<br />
* Responsible, ethical representation of ACL<br />
<br />
=== Procedure for Selection ===<br />
<br />
# Nominations for award recipients can be made by any current or former ACL member, including members of the Executive Committee and members of the ACL Nominating Committee. <br />
# The ACL Nominating Committee is charged with soliciting a large and diverse pool of candidates and with making the final selection in accordance with the criteria for the award.<br />
# To be eligible, the nominee must have been a member of the ACL at some time in the past. <br />
# The selection of the award recipient from the pool of nominees is handled by the ACL Nominating Committee, consisting of three past ACL presidents and six ACL Fellows.<br />
# To avoid conflicts of interest, members of the Executive Committee and the Nominating Committee are not eligible to receive the Distinguished Service Award while serving.<br />
# The committee will strive to converge on unanimous support for a candidate for the current year. The committee may seek advice from respected impartial senior figures in the field, such as previous recipients of the award.<br />
# Only one award will be given per year. The committee may choose not to select a recipient in a given year.<br />
# The selection of the committee will be submitted for formal approval to the ACL Executive Committee, providing whatever explanations and supporting documentation the Executive Committee requires.<br />
# The role of the Executive Committee is to ensure consistency and clarity in the decision process; they should not overrule the committee's proposal or advance alternative candidates after the decision is made.<br />
# The deadline for nominations from the general membership each year is March 1.<br />
<br />
=== Process for Nominations ===<br />
<br />
A nomination package should include the following material:<br />
<br />
* Nominee information: name, email address, and current affiliation, if applicable<br />
<br />
* A nomination letter (maximum 1500 words; 500 words is the recommended length)<br />
<br />
* Two additional letters of endorsement (maximum 500 words)<br />
<br />
* Optionally, two additional pages of supporting documentation<br />
<br />
<br />
All letter writers should be members of the ACL community, ideally from different institutions and relatively independent of the nominee. The nomination letter should describe the specific service contributions of the nominee that merit the ACL Distinguished Service award, describe their impact, and provide a proposed award citation of 30 words or fewer. Self-nominations are not accepted. The letters of endorsement should provide first-hand knowledge that supports the statements in the nomination but does not merely repeat them.<br />
<br />
<br />
The nominator should compile the nomination package and submit the complete package by March 1 of the nomination year to secretary@aclweb.org. Nomination packages that arrive after the deadline will not be considered. The nominating committee will acknowledge receipt of the nominations but will not contact the nominees (to keep the nominations confidential). The award will be conferred at the upcoming ACL conference, which the award winner is expected to attend.<br />
<br />
<br />
Nominators will be informed of the result of the decision for any nominations they made. A nominator will have the choice of withdrawing an unsuccessful nomination to wait for a more appropriate time, updating the nomination for the following year to strengthen the case, or leaving the nomination unchanged for consideration for next year. Unsuccessful nominations that are not explicitly withdrawn by the nominator will be automatically reconsidered for up to two additional years and then withdrawn.<br />
<br />
<br />
In case of questions, please contact the secretary of the ACL, secretary@aclweb.org.<br />
<br />
=== Publicizing the Award ===<br />
<br />
The ACL President will call the awardee to convey the news. <br />
<br />
The Award will be formally presented at the ACL conference following notification of the selection of the recipient. The recipient is not expected to make a speech nor write a paper.<br />
<br />
All parties are required to keep the winner of the Distinguished Service Award confidential until it is formally announced at the ACL conference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
In recognition of the outstanding contributions of Dragomir Radev to the ACL and the whole NLP community, the ACL Executive Committee decided to rename the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award in April 2023.<br />
<br />
<br />
The winners of ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service award can be found here: [[ACL DSA Winners]].<br />
<br />
<br />
May 2018 <br />
<br />
Revised June 2018, October 2018, January 2024</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Nominating_Committee_-_2024ACL Nominating Committee - 20242024-01-10T01:26:28Z<p>ShiqiZhao: Created page with "The members of the Nominating Committee (as of January 2024) are: The existing Fellows: * Raymond Mooney (2023-2024) * Lillian Lee (2023-2024) * Hang Li (2024-2025) * Qun Liu..."</p>
<hr />
<div>The members of the Nominating Committee (as of January 2024) are:<br />
<br />
The existing Fellows:<br />
* Raymond Mooney (2023-2024)<br />
* Lillian Lee (2023-2024)<br />
* Hang Li (2024-2025)<br />
* Qun Liu (2024-2025)<br />
* Bonnie Webber (2024-2025)<br />
* Hermann Ney (2024-2025)<br />
<br />
The ACL past presidents:<br />
* Rada Mihalcea (2022-2024) (co-chair of the committee, 2024)<br />
* Tim Baldwin (2023-2025) (co-chair of the committee, 2024)<br />
* Iryna Gurevych (2024-2026)</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Newsletter_2023Newsletter 20232023-12-23T10:05:22Z<p>ShiqiZhao: Created page with "== Membership== We expect to close 2023 with over 7000 members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when..."</p>
<hr />
<div>== Membership== <br />
<br />
We expect to close 2023 with over 7000 members! You can now renew your membership through the ACL portal: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/ or you can renew when you register for an ACL affiliated conference.<br />
<br />
== Outgoing Exec Members ==<br />
<br />
The following people are leaving the exec:<br />
<br />
* Tim Baldwin (ACL VP-elect (2020), VP (2021), President (2022), Past President (2023))<br />
* Yusuke Miyao (ACL member at-large, conference officer, 2021-2023)<br />
* Luciana Benotti (NAACL Chair, 2022-2023)<br />
<br />
I would like to thank all of you for your great contributions as the exec members and wish you luck in your future endeavors!<br />
<br />
== New Exec Members ==<br />
<br />
We have three new members joining the exec as of January 1, 2024. These are:<br />
<br />
* Barbara Plank (ACL VP-elect)<br />
* Yuki Arase (ACL member at-large)<br />
* Graham Neubig (NAACL Chair)<br />
<br />
Welcome to the new exec members! <br />
<br />
The full list of Exec members is here: http://www.aclweb.org/portal/about<br />
<br />
The next elections will take place in the Fall of 2024.<br />
<br />
== ACL Policies ==<br />
<br />
In 2023, ACL has approved the following new policies:<br />
<br />
* [[ACL Name Change Policy]]<br />
** ACL recognizes the right of individuals to use the name of their choosing for their publications, including those in the past. We offer multiple options for individuals who have changed their name.<br />
* [[Policy on Memorial Services]]<br />
<br />
In addition, the Exec approved the amendment to the [[Lifetime Achievement Award]] to accept nominations from the ACL members, and the amendment to [[ACL Conference Conflict-of-interest policy]].<br />
<br />
== New SIGs ==<br />
<br />
The following new SIGs were created in 2023:<br />
<br />
* SIGSUMM (SIG on summarization)<br />
** https://www.sigsumm.org/<br />
** Liaison representative: Yue Dong<br />
* SIGSEC (SIG on NLP Security)<br />
** https://sig.llmsecurity.net<br />
** President: Leon Derczynski, Secretary: Muhao Chen<br />
* SIGWrit (SIG on Writing Systems and Written Language)<br />
** president: Richard Sproat, Secretary-Treasurer: Kyle Gorman<br />
<br />
== ACL Lifetime Achievement Award ==<br />
<br />
The winner of the ACL 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award (LTA) was Martha Palmer, for tremendous contributions to NLP, multilingual resources, and supervised ML in lexical-semantic processing.<br />
<br />
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/martha-palmer-receives-2023-acl-lifetime-achievement-award<br />
<br />
The 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced during the ACL 2024 conference.<br />
<br />
For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Lifetime_Achievement_Award_Recipients<br />
<br />
== Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award == <br />
<br />
In recognition of the outstanding contributions of Dragomir Radev to the ACL and the whole NLP community, the ACL Executive Committee has decided to rename the Distinguished Service Award to Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award.<br />
<br />
The 2023 winner of the Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award is Joakim Nivre, who has served in many different capacities in the ACL leadership and exemplifies the dedication over his over two decades of contribution to computational linguistics.<br />
<br />
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/joakim-nivre-receives-2023-acl-dragomir-radev-distinguished-service-award<br />
<br />
The 2024 Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award will be announced during the ACL 2024 conference.<br />
<br />
For a list of past winners, visit: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Distinguished_Service_Award_Recipients<br />
<br />
== Test-of-Time Paper Award ==<br />
<br />
The winners of the 1998 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:<br />
<br />
* Irene Langkilde, Kevin Knight. Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge. Proceedings of ACL 1998.<br />
* Hinrich Schütze. Automatic Word Sense Discrimination. Computational Linguistics, 24(1). 1998.<br />
<br />
The winners of the 2013 Test-of-Time Paper Award are:<br />
<br />
* Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre, Yvonne Quirmbach-Brundage, Yoav Goldberg, Dipanjan Das, Kuzman Ganchev, Keith Hall, Slav Petrov, Hao Zhang, Oscar Täckström, Claudia Bedini, Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Jungmee Lee. Universal Dependency Annotation for Multilingual Parsing. Proceedings of ACL 2013.<br />
* Richard Socher, Alex Perelygin, Jean Wu, Jason Chuang, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew Ng, Christopher Potts. Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentiment Treebank. Proceedings of EMNLP 2013.<br />
<br />
== ACL Fellows ==<br />
<br />
The ACL Nominating Committee has selected the following new fellows for 2023:<br />
<br />
*Mona Diab<br />
** Carnegie Mellon University<br />
** For contributions to Arabic language NLP, to lexical semantics, and for democratizing NLP to wider and less privileged communities.<br />
<br />
*Barbara di Eugenio<br />
**University of Illinois at Chicago<br />
**For outstanding contributions to natural language generation; intelligent tutoring systems; discourse; intercoder agreement; and applying multimodal interactive systems to health.<br />
<br />
*Anna Korhonen<br />
**University of Cambridge<br />
**For significant contributions to lexical acquisition, multilingual and low resource NLP, socially beneficial language applications, and services to the ACL community<br />
<br />
*Roberto Navigli<br />
**Sapienza University of Rome<br />
**For significant contributions to multilingual lexical-semantic resources and a unifying vision for multilingual lexical and sentence-level semantics.<br />
<br />
*Ming Zhou<br />
**Langboat Ltd.<br />
**For significant contributions to machine translation, language learning, text generation as well as the growth of NLP community in China and Asia<br />
<br />
== Coming Conferences == <br />
<br />
* EACL 2024 <br />
** https://2024.eacl.org/<br />
** The 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024) will take place in Malta, March 17-22, 2024.<br />
<br />
* NAACL 2024<br />
** https://2024.naacl.org/<br />
** 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024) will take place in Mexico City, Mexico from June 16th to 21st, 2024.<br />
<br />
* ACL 2024<br />
** https://2024.aclweb.org/<br />
** The 62st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024) will take place in Bangkok, Thailand from August 11th to 16th, 2024.<br />
<br />
* EMNLP 2024<br />
** The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024) will take place in Miami, USA, from November 12 to 16, 2024.<br />
<br />
== 2023 Reports from ACL Officers ==<br />
<br />
Q1 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q1_Reports<br />
<br />
Q3 reports: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports<br />
<br />
== ACL Resolutions ==<br />
<br />
The list of ACL resolutions: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Resolutions <br />
<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
<br />
Shiqi Zhao, ACL secretary</div>ShiqiZhaohttps://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Name_Change_PolicyACL Name Change Policy2023-12-13T06:06:55Z<p>YusukeMiyao: </p>
<hr />
<div>ACL recognizes the right of individuals to use the name of their choosing for their publications, including those in the past. For individuals who have changed their name, we offer multiple options:<br />
<br />
# '''Separate identities'''. Papers published under a new name remain unlinked with those published under the old one. This is the default behavior.<br />
# '''Linked identities'''. The Anthology can produce a consolidated author page merging together papers published under any number of different names. No PDFs or metadata are changed, but search results and links will direct to this page. Optionally, at the author's request, a correction notice can be displayed when someone searches for the old name.<br />
# '''New identity'''. Should an individual wish to change their name on prior publications, we will follow the following procedure.<br />
#* Authors may submit their request by creating a Github issue or (for more privacy) by emailing the [mailto:anthology@aclweb.org Anthology director].<br />
#* Anthology staff will make the changes to existing papers using professional PDF editing software. The original files will be preserved privately in our archives.<br />
#* Metadata corrections will be committed to the repository discreetly. Revised citation materials (BibTeX, Endnote, etc) are generated automatically.<br />
#* We unfortunately are not set up to support name changes in reference sections of other papers.<br />
#* We will notify our contact at Google Scholar, who will reingest the material.<br />
<br />
We will make all efforts to complete these revisions expeditiously, though factors such as timing and the amount of work the request creates will affect completion time.<br />
<br />
ACL committee on name changes<br><br />
Shlomo Argamon, Jasmijn Bastings, Yusuke Miyao</div>YusukeMiyao